Henry Ford

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

For a long time now, I have believed that industry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider andsteadier market; industrial workers need more steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crops through our laboratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of motor cars and, thus provide an industrial market for the farmers’ products.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

That dog don’t hunt.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.